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Pocketblue – Fedora Atomic for mobile devices

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by nikodunk

7 hours ago

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linmob

1 hour ago

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This is a really cool project, and IMHO the most important new-comer in the #MobileLinux distro space in a long time, as it takes a model proven on desktop, building upon a well-run distribution (Fedora) and applies it to mobile.

I have yet to attempt daily-driving it, but just trying it and easily switching mobile shells (e.g., from Plasma Mobile to Phosh) so easily[0] without have weird side-effects from the previous environment has been quite exciting!

[0]: https://pocketblue.github.io/devices/oneplus-sdm845/#images-...

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nikodunk

1 hour ago

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Updating without worries has made it much more daily-drivable for me on a Oneplus 6 (ie. it has rollbacks and image-based updates), despite being so new. It's fun that image-based OSs - which were arguably popularlized by phones - are now coming back to phones on the Linux side too.

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HardwareLust

45 minutes ago

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Very cool project, just wish it was a available on a wider range of devices. Hopefully someday!

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nikodunk

2 hours ago

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This is based on bootc (bootable containers), so note that the OS build is described in a normal Dockerfile: https://github.com/pocketblue/pocketblue/blob/main/Container... which is then run by the Github action (or locally).

Very similar to how Universal Blue, Bazzite, Bluefin etc. build at https://github.com/ublue-os/bazzite (see their Containerfile), but for mobile.

Has a similar mission to https://postmarketos.org, but with a different build system AFAICT

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esperent

17 minutes ago

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Supported devices:

Xiaomi pad 5/6

Oneplus 6/6T

... That's it.

Does anyone know if there's plans for more? Is this project in very early stages, or is it going to be another Graphene OS with an extremely limited device support?

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pengaru

37 minutes ago

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how does something like this not support pinephone and librem5 from day 1?

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nikodunk

20 minutes ago

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I'm sure PRs would be welcomed if you have those devices to test on.